2012 Annular solar eclipse – followup

Readers may remember that my family and I made a mad dash through northern California into Nevada trying to get ahead of clouds. Readers may remember this “perfect” image taken by my lovely wife that we uploaded to WUWT from a Starbucks in Fernley, NV.

What you see above is actually a new 20″x30″ limited edition print. We got a lot of requests via email for the original, so decided to make a true high quality piece of art out of the event by making a collage of the shots leading up to and after the “totality” of the annular eclipse.

The spot where we photographed it from was right on the center line, as shown below by the marker:

This is printed on very heavy paper, individually numbered, and shipped in a sturdy cardboard shipping tube with the print wrapped in plastic to avoid scuffing. This is a limited edition of 200 prints. They look great framed with a black frame.

For Orders in the United States

The price now includes FREE SHIPPING in the USA (previously, we had set the print purchase and shipping cost separate, but this created problems, this new way saves both you and I some money).

I hope you don’t mind this bit of commercialism here, but the camera used was my gift to my wife, something she’d always wanted, that I gave to her after our scare with breast cancer. We still have medical bills (Obamacare doesn’t help) from that we are slowly paying off, so this seemed like a good way to get some of those knocked down. Of course if Exxon would just send me that big check I’m told all us skeptics get, that problem would be solved. ;-)

Ha! You should try working with eBay outside the US where they insist on foreigners filling in US Postal Service charges. Also, if someone rorts the system, they just don’t want to know you. That’s said as a seller of many thousand items since 1999.
But, to the theme, the image by your wife Stacey is particularly striking and well-conceived. Top marks.
Any market for my rare image just AFTER the Venus transit, which won’t happen again fror over a century?

I would set up a PayPal shopping cart button for these prints, not an eBay auction. PayPal has been working smoothly for my international customers who have been purchasing my astronomy posters. Best of luck with the sales!

I took Erik Anderson’s advice, and set up a PayPal shopping cart button for these prints for sale in the USA. See the page updated above with two links.

For International Sales, that is still going to be handled by Ebay for now since I didn’t have time to learn the ins/outs for international shipping (maybe next time). Hopefully this will work out smoother for this short sale.

I apologize for the early hiccups related to the crazy shipping costs.

It is perfectly fitting, Anthony, that you visited Pyramid Lake in that it is the largest remnant of Lake Lahontan, one of the largest glacial lakes in the US. If anyone is curious, The growth and disappearance of Lake Lahontan is what true, believable climate change looks like. These little fluctuations we’re having since the disappearance of that vast lake are just that.

In the text about the order, it is said that “It was the first annular eclipse in 18 years”. This is not correct. You are confusing with the Saros period. Since the year 2000, there have been annular solar eclipses on 2001 December 14, 2002 June 10, 2003 May 31, 2005 October 3, 2006 September 22, 2008 February 7, 2009 January 26, and 2010 January 15.
The next annulars will occur on 2013 May 10, 2014 April 29, 2016 September 1, etc.

REPLY: Yep, you are right, I confused it with the saros period. I’ll fix that.

Great timing! Now that I don’t have to pay the Wisconsin state govt money that will be passed on to the Wisc teacher’s union, I can use that handful of extra bucks in my pocket for something worthwhile!